Microscan MS-710, User Manual

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MS-710 Scanner User’s Manual
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About This Manual
This manual provides complete information on setting up, installing, and configuring the
MS-710 scanner. The chapters follow the ESP menus which are presented in the order in
which a scanner might be setup and made ready for industrial operation.
Chapter 1, “Quick Start” provides overall step-by-step instructions for getting your
scanner operational with specific “go to” references to other chapters and appendices.
The appendices include specifications, reference tables of serial commands, ASCII char-
acters, multidrop setup and addresses, as well as other useful information relating to
bar coding and electrical and mechanical setups for the scanner.
Highlighting
Serial commands, selections inside instructions, and menu defaults are highlighted in
red bold . Cross-references are highlighted in blue bold . Web links and outside refer-
ences are highlighted in blue bold italics . References to menu topics are highlighted in
Bold Initial Caps. References to topic headings within this manual or other documents
are enclosed in quotation marks.
Host Communications
There are three ways the scanner can communicate with a host:
1. Microscan’s Windows™ based ESP™ , the preferred method which offers point-
and-click ease of use and visual responses to user adjustments.
2. Serial commands such as <Kr1> can be sent from a terminal program. They can
also be sent from the Terminal window within ESP.
3. Embedded onboard menus are accessed from a terminal window with a <D>
command.
About ESP
ESP is composed of two basic modes Setup
Mode and App Mode (applications). The icons
shown here are used to move between these
modes and are located in the upper left corner of
the ESP window.
In the
App Mode, click the Configuration icon
to bring up the configuration views for Read Cycle, Symbolo-
gies, I/O, Matchcode and Diagnostics.
Note: Throughout ESP, the term “reader” applies to both readers
and scanners.
For more information, see
“Using ESP” in chapter 2 .